A noose hung outside a Black doctor’s operating room in Grande Prairie, Alta. — revealed in news coverage last week — was reported almost immediately at the time to hospital administrators by startled bystanders. That was in 2016. Shortly thereafter, a photo of the noose made its way to Alberta’s medical regulator and eventually to the province’s health minister. Yet, according to multiple doctors who wrote complaints, nothing was done to discipline the perpetrator, a white surgeon whom colleagues say still held leadership positions after the incident.
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